Alice Walker was born on February 9, 1944, in Eatonton, Georgia, the eighth and last child of Willie Lee and Minnie Lou Grant Walker, who were sharecroppers. She received her bachelor of arts degree from Sarah Lawrence College in 1965. She received the Pulitzer Prize in 1983 for The Color Purple. She currently resides in Northern California with her dog, Marley. |
The Color Purple
by Alice Walker.
Novel by Alice Walker, published in 1982. It won a Pulitzer Prize in 1983. A feminist novel about an abused and uneducated black woman's struggle for empowerment, the novel was praised for the depth of its female characters and for its eloquent use of black English vernacular.
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The Temple of My Familiar
by Alice Walker, Julie Rubenstein (Editor).
Transcending the conventions of time and place, Walker's novel moves from contemporary America, England, and Africa to unfamiliar primal worlds, where women, men, and animals socialize in surprising ways. The author of The Color Purple has created a mesmerizing novel of vision and spirit.
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